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slyfox125 16 hours ago [-]
vermaden's contributions in making FreeBSD accessible to others is invaluable, as a Google search regarding some aspect of FreeBSD often includes results referencing his blog.
Wayland on FreeBSD does work; combining it with KDE Plasma is quite usable.
FreeBSD is great.
willaaam 16 hours ago [-]
I read this and I feel mostly wonder. About a lot of things.
But hey - I appreciate someone promoting FreeBSD for desktop and doing stuff just because he can. Good for him!
tosti 5 hours ago [-]
IMNSHO that ASRock mainboard is terrible. Worst mainboard I ever bought. It worked fine at first but got issues fast. Only one USB peripheral allowed or all the USB ports loose power, can do unaccelerated 2D but boots to a blank screen as soon as amdgpu loads... I think they've crammed too much features in a small form factor.
caycep 5 hours ago [-]
I have the one a level up, the phantom gaming one. Those have been solid, maybe better components? Although they do have the inherited issues from using the Intel I225v NIC...
ciupicri 9 hours ago [-]
> After I learned how much some Red Hat people wanted to cripple and kill the X11
What is he talking about?
vermaden 3 hours ago [-]
The details are in other article I linked to - here:
The 2 quotes just say "they killed it", but the way I read it having followed most linux stuff is just they are finally happy that they were able to "kill X.Org" in RHEL by being able to provide an alternative that they are able to actually improve upon.
And metux was banned from my knowledge after multiple times pushing uncompilable and breaking changes to the actual X.Org repo, which later needed to be reverted and just being stubborn as all hell to work with. Recently even Artix had to drop XLibre support for causing too many issues[0] to put it lightly.
Ages ago Redhat people wanted to stop supporting X11 since it was old and harder to maintain with all the weird extensions and it being older C code. They wanted to move to Wayland and people claim that maybe in maintaining X11 Redhat also made some changes that made X11 worse. You can find all kinds of discussion of why Wayland is bad or why X11 is bad and Wayland is the one and only future. Now things are settled and Wayland won.
comprambler 8 hours ago [-]
(to op) you must flip your psu around as your cpu is going to cook it. The psu needs fresh intake air.
buckle8017 8 hours ago [-]
he's got a 35W TDP cpu... its fine
br0ceph 7 hours ago [-]
the best thing about freebsd in 2026, is no goddamn systemd virus
TacticalCoder 4 hours ago [-]
> the best thing about freebsd in 2026, is no goddamn systemd virus
Yup. And with FreeBSD's bhyve you can run VMs. My plan to be, at long last, entirely systemd free again is FreeBSD/bhyve/Linux VM (a distro without systemd)/(podman) containers.
The amazing thing with containers is that, by definition, PID1 ain't systemd and they're minimal: no room for systemd and its tentacles meddling everywhere in a container.
Now I could go all Linux (a systemd-less distro) but sadly IMO the Linux ecosystem is way too cosy with systemd, so I prefer a safer bet with FreeBSD.
I wonder how many of us are beginning to use FreeBSD because of our sheer hate of the poetteringization of the Linux ecosystem?
badgersnake 16 hours ago [-]
Long time FreeBSD user on and off, currently running 16-CURRENT on my desktop for GPU support. But fwget is a new one on me. I’m gonna try it later and see what it does for me.
FreeBSD is really hard to keep up with the changes - i don’t know of a good source to keep up with what is considered the right way to do things anymore. Anyone know a good source? Linux is much better for blogs.
assimpleaspossi 15 hours ago [-]
FreeBSD, as an OS, does not change that much. It's not hard to keep up. That's why it's such a solid OS. The main web site lists any changes or additions with each release.
But you are running 16-CURRENT, which is the development branch not suitable for production or daily use. Is that why you are struggling?
8by3 14 hours ago [-]
AFAIK the netflix CDN boxes all run -current (they used to at least), so is the main pfsense release.
-current is definitely ok for production
infofarmer 13 hours ago [-]
-current is ok with the caveat that you have to be pretty engaged with the development process, ideally having developers employed (or be one yourself)
I was a committer long ago, these days sticking to latest releases on my boxes
Desktop is a moving target and modern hardware usually requires -current, but I wouldn’t call it “production”
badgersnake 14 hours ago [-]
No not all. I’m only on 16 for RDNA4 support, might go back to 15 once it’s back ported, if I can be bothered.
The command I referenced is not, I guess 16 only. Other examples are the service command just appearing, etcupdate being preferred to mergemaster, whatever the current preferred flavour of port upgrade tool is (poudrire, portmaster, portupgrade, something else(?)).
I also have no idea what is a sane way to do things that Linux does as systemd user services like pipewire, xdg-sessions if I want to share my screen.
toast0 13 hours ago [-]
I think for etcupdate etc, you should be able to get that info from /usr/src/UPDATING
For port upgrades, I dunno if it applies to CURRENT, but pkg seems to work?
I usually read the release notes for each release, which keeps me up to date enough.
I dunno about your session question. In X11, you could drop those in .xsession, but Wayland is a just a protocol, so who knows.
badgersnake 13 hours ago [-]
Yeah pkg is fine if you’re using prebuilt packages. I don’t think it builds ports with custom configs for you from /usr/ports. Or maybe it does now and I missed that too.
I much prefer sway as my desktop, but each to their own.
KetoManx64 8 hours ago [-]
> XLibre X11
Great to see how this has taken off and pushed past all the Wayland political bros continuously trying to tear it down.
redeeman 6 hours ago [-]
question, what has the "wayland political bros" actually done except say its a waste of time?
Wayland on FreeBSD does work; combining it with KDE Plasma is quite usable.
FreeBSD is great.
But hey - I appreciate someone promoting FreeBSD for desktop and doing stuff just because he can. Good for him!
What is he talking about?
- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/200-mb-ram-freebsd...
The 2 quotes just say "they killed it", but the way I read it having followed most linux stuff is just they are finally happy that they were able to "kill X.Org" in RHEL by being able to provide an alternative that they are able to actually improve upon.
And metux was banned from my knowledge after multiple times pushing uncompilable and breaking changes to the actual X.Org repo, which later needed to be reverted and just being stubborn as all hell to work with. Recently even Artix had to drop XLibre support for causing too many issues[0] to put it lightly.
[0]: https://artixlinux.org/news.php#XLibre_support_discontinued
Yup. And with FreeBSD's bhyve you can run VMs. My plan to be, at long last, entirely systemd free again is FreeBSD/bhyve/Linux VM (a distro without systemd)/(podman) containers.
The amazing thing with containers is that, by definition, PID1 ain't systemd and they're minimal: no room for systemd and its tentacles meddling everywhere in a container.
Now I could go all Linux (a systemd-less distro) but sadly IMO the Linux ecosystem is way too cosy with systemd, so I prefer a safer bet with FreeBSD.
I wonder how many of us are beginning to use FreeBSD because of our sheer hate of the poetteringization of the Linux ecosystem?
FreeBSD is really hard to keep up with the changes - i don’t know of a good source to keep up with what is considered the right way to do things anymore. Anyone know a good source? Linux is much better for blogs.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/
But you are running 16-CURRENT, which is the development branch not suitable for production or daily use. Is that why you are struggling?
-current is definitely ok for production
I was a committer long ago, these days sticking to latest releases on my boxes
Desktop is a moving target and modern hardware usually requires -current, but I wouldn’t call it “production”
The command I referenced is not, I guess 16 only. Other examples are the service command just appearing, etcupdate being preferred to mergemaster, whatever the current preferred flavour of port upgrade tool is (poudrire, portmaster, portupgrade, something else(?)).
I also have no idea what is a sane way to do things that Linux does as systemd user services like pipewire, xdg-sessions if I want to share my screen.
For port upgrades, I dunno if it applies to CURRENT, but pkg seems to work?
I usually read the release notes for each release, which keeps me up to date enough.
I dunno about your session question. In X11, you could drop those in .xsession, but Wayland is a just a protocol, so who knows.
I much prefer sway as my desktop, but each to their own.
Great to see how this has taken off and pushed past all the Wayland political bros continuously trying to tear it down.